Kevin Douglas Grant

Kevin Douglas Grant is The GroundTruth Project’s Co-founder and Chief Content Officer, as well as Vice President, Strategic Initiatives of Report for America.

Previously Senior Editor of Special Reports at GlobalPost, he has led reporting projects around the world and his work has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and Online Journalism Awards among others. Over the last 10 years, he has helped to support more than 300 reporting fellows producing in-depth work on social justice issues in more than 50 countries.

Grant is a recent graduate of the Media Transformation Challenge at Poynter, and is presently working on a project about religious leaders worldwide as a journalism fellow at USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

He holds an M.A. in Online Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and the founding Executive Editor of Annenberg’s pioneering news organization Neon Tommy. Grant is also the former Operations Director of semantic news aggregator Inform.com, and brings a scrappy, entrepreneurial approach to his work in journalism.

Grant is currently based in Washington, D.C. In 2021 he will begin as a capstone adviser and adjunct professor of journalism at Georgetown University.

Democracy

An attack on America, the product of an authoritarian movement

WASHINGTON — Once they got inside, they were everywhere. A mob carrying bats, knives, chemical spray and handcuffs stormed...

Columns

How to recognize fascism

As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. As the world commemorates the 75th...

Columns

Attempted coup or auto-coup? Either way, an attack on the guardrails of democracy

WASHINGTON — Like yelling “fire!” in a crowded room, alleging an attempted coup is not something to be...

Democracy

How Trump is trying to cloud the presidential election result

WASHINGTON & DETROIT — At about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump falsely declared victory from...

Democracy

What do the Supreme Court’s voting rights rulings portend for the election?

Supreme Court decisions in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina this week demonstrated justices’ ability to either check accelerating...

Columns

How to recognize fascism

As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. As the world commemorates the 75th...

Democracy

The American community organizer wanted for arrest by China

WASHINGTON — On the morning of July 31, Samuel Chu, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and community organizer,...

Democracy

Trump’s election delay musings are part of anti-democratic playbook

WASHINGTON — The president doesn’t have legal authority to delay or cancel an election. But that won’t stop...

Rights

America Astray: Police target journalists covering civil unrest

WASHINGTON — America wakes up this morning with cities still smoldering after a weekend of violent protest, in...

Special Reports

In a global COVID-19 crisis, flashes of authoritarian instinct

WASHINGTON — Fear and chaos are the soil in which authoritarianism grows best, and we have entered a...

Democracy

Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook – Overview

Seven steps by populists worldwide to undermine the democracies that elected them By Kevin Douglas Grant|October 17, 2019|@kevindgrant...

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